Month: October 2010

How-To: Spike-Through-Stomach Costume

Here’s a quick Halloween costume idea from instructables user gnatquill: a spike through your stomach! Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to enter it in our CRAFT Halloween contest to win cool prizes. Costumes, decor, food – whatever you create for Halloween is welcome in the contest. Read our full contest page for […]

How-To: Beaded Spider

Jessica of Craftily Ever After shares her tutorial for making these beaded spiders that can be used for everything from Halloween fridge magnets to accessories. Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to enter it in our CRAFT Halloween contest to win cool prizes. Costumes, decor, food – whatever you create for Halloween is […]

The Turner’s Cube: Classic machinist’s exercise

The Turner’s Cube: Classic machinist’s exercise

This lovely object is more than just an interesting gewgaw: It’s called a “turner’s cube”–so named, I think, because it is a challenge for one who turns on a lathe rather than eponymously–and according to Bob Warfield, “[i]n the old days, novice machinist’s [sic] were handed one and told to work out how to make one of their own.” Bob’s got a cool page describing his efforts to make one manually and then using a CNC mill, with some bonus commentary on this thread by CNC Zone member widgitmaster, who made the cube pictured above, using the jig pictured above, on a big engine lathe. Beautiful!